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May 14, 2009
Warfare Techniques Change But Soldiers' Dilemmas Remain
Similarities between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war in Vietnam are remarkable and sobering, write Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd.
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By Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd The similarities between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war in Vietnam are remarkable and sobering. Although political, technological, and cultural changes create many differences in war and warfare, the questions and dilemmas that soldiers faced in the 1960s and 1970s are strikingly similar to those they have confronted in recent years. So, too, are the decisions of growing numbers of ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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